It's Treasure Chest Thursday - an opportunity to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history research and genealogy musings.
The treasure today is the 1850 United States Agricultural Census record for Amos Underhill (1772-1865) in Aurora, Erie County, New York - two images:
The first page:
The second page:
Amos Underhill's information is on the 14th line on the right-hand page of the first image and the left-hand page of the second image.
The transcribed information:
The transcribed information:
* Name of Agent, Owner or Manager of Farm: Amos Underhill
* Acres of land: 40 acres improved, 20 acres unimproved.
* Present cash value: $1300 of farm, $50 of farming implements and machinery.
* Livestock as of June 1, 1850: 2 horses, 3 milch cows, 10 other cattle, 28 sheep, 2 swine, $305 value of all livestock.
* Produce during the year ending June 1: 10 bushels of Indian corn, 100 bushels of oats, 90 pounds of wool, 100 bushels of Irish potatoes, 20 bushels of buckwheat, 200 lbs of butter, 40 tons of hay, value of orchard products $50. 400 pounds of butter, 20 tons of hay, $20 value of animals slaughtered.
The source citation for this record is:
1850 United States Federal Census, Aurora, Erie County, New York, Amos Underhill farm; imaged, "U.S., Selected Federal Census Non-Population Schedules, 1850-1880," Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1276/records/4599712 : accessed 22 February 2025); New York > Agriculture > 1850 > Erie > Aurora > image 7 of 8, line 14; Original data in Nonpopulation Census Schedules for New York, 1850-1880. Microfilm. New York State Library, Documents and Digital Collections, Albany. (NARA microfilm publication T1156, 49 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
Amos Underhill (1772-1865) was born 15 April 1772 in Chester, Rockingham County, New Hampshire Colony, the son of John and Hannah (Colby) Underhill. He died 15 October 1865 in Aurora, Erie County New York. Amos married Mary "Polly" Metcalf (1780-1855) on 25 March 1801 in Piermont, Grafton County, New Hampshire. They had 5 children between 1804 and 1820.
Amos and Mary (Metcalf) Underhill are my 4th great-grandparents, who first settled in Piermont, Grafton County, New Hampshire and moved to Aurora, Erie County, New York before 1813, and died there in 1865 and 1855, respectively. I am descended from their daughter, Mary Ann Underhill (1815-1883) who married Samuel Vaux (1816-1880) in Erie County, New York in 1839.
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